Programme

2007 - 2023: interactive artwork

Blackbox AI is a multidisciplinary art installation in the form of a labyrinth, inspired by Bruno Latour’s characterization of new technologies as “black boxes”, where the input and the output are

The project "Homo Vespertilio" (from Latin: "Man - Bat") emerged as an idea for conceptual art as a result of a case study by Prof. Dr. Atanas Totlyakov and Prof. Dr.

Kalin Serapionov (Bulgaria)

"A blonde woman in a red dress and bright lipstick talking on the phone and smoking a cigarette"
Video, HD, sound, 5:41 min (loop), 2016

210 prepared dc-motors, cotton balls, cardboard boxes 60x60x60 cm
Zimoun 2011/2023

Triangular Tower of Serdika, Regional History Museum Sofia, bul. Maria Luiza 16,

Projects by artists part of e-valuation 3.0.: Yana Vassileva, raw lab, trohi, 24-28.10.2023

Interactive installation, table, gong, drawing machine, paper, electronics
varying dimensions

‘1997’
Video, 2023
05:07 min

Ancient Greek philosophers wrote of four temperaments (or ‘humors’) that color all of creation: sanguine, choleric, melancholic and phlegmatic.

''Ghostly plants of damaged worlds'' is an installation between technological world art and bio-art.

computer animation, 2023

The Value of Art are interactive paintings dealing with the economy of attention and value creation in the art world.

Flying bodies across the fields 

bok-o-bok: Florian Goralski and Veronika Akopova (France)

Toplocentrala, Hall 2, 24.10.2023, 20:00

Ágoston Nagy & Bence Samu (Binaura) will present their artistic practice building software based interfaces, algorithmic installations using free and open source tools since the early 2000s.

In 2019 we were approached by the late curator Karin Ohlenschläger to realize a 30 years retrospective exhibition of our interactive media art works.

Renowned French artist ORLAN comes to Bulgaria for the first time as part of the festival program of DA Fest 9 and the Digital November program of the French Institute presents an exhibition of sel

Florian Goralsky is a director, software developer and co-founder of bok o bok.

Steps Untold 1.0, 2023, 30’ - screening of the documentary movie about the project Steps Untold 1.0 (2021) - a series of site-specific mixed reality interventions performed on public stairways.

The workshop's program includes a brief presentation of DARV collective's projects and the DARV augmented reality application, specifically designed for artists and art educators.

Video art, in contrast to traditional cinema that captures sequential scenes, can make us reflect on the poetic suspension from multiple perspectives in time and space in a single work.

26 October (Thursday), 18.00.

Slaveikov Hall of the French Institute, sq. Slaveikov 3

Electronic Theatre
50 Min

27.10.2023, 16:00 - 18:00, National Academy of Art, 1 Shipka str, Hall 002003

The DARV Collective (Violeta Ivanova, Mihaela Kavdanska and Florian Weinrich) will present new augmented reality interventions in public spaces as part of their ongoing Steps Untold project.

Beijing-born, Chicago-based artist Yuge Zhou is tapping into territories where art, technology and science entangle.

In Downhill Finn explores loneliness, the strangeness of the world and imagination in an abstract but still lighthearted way.

Verlatour x Inlum.in - Immersion is a new and unprecedented form of live action: an interactive and participatory electro-performance in which the audience is as much a participant as a spectator o